Mari (disambiguation)
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Mari may refer to:
Places
Religion
People
Other uses
- Mari (given name)
- Mari languageMari languageThe Mari language , spoken by more than 600,000 people, belongs to the Uralic language family. It is spoken primarily in the Mari Republic of the Russian Federation as well as in the area along the Vyatka river basin and eastwards to the Urals...
, Uralic language - Mari people, Volga-Finnic people
Places
- Mari El Republic, a federal subject of Russia
- Mari Autonomous OblastMari Autonomous OblastMari Autonomous Oblast was created 1920-11-04,as a part of RSFSR. Later Mari ASSR was proclaimed, eventually developed to the modern Mari El Republic within Russian Federation.The early years: Povolzhye famine, 1921 Mari wildfires....
(1920–1936), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union - Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist RepublicMari Autonomous Soviet Socialist RepublicMari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was the successor of Mari Autonomous Oblast. When the Soviet Union disintegrated, the Mari ASSR became known as the Mari El Republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation....
(1936–1990), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union - Mari, SyriaMari, SyriaMari was an ancient Sumerian and Amorite city, located 11 kilometers north-west of the modern town of Abu Kamal on the western bank of Euphrates river, some 120 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria...
, ancient near eastern city - Mari, CyprusMari, CyprusMari is a village in the Larnaca District of Cyprus, located 5 km west of Zygi. The village was largely populated by Turkish Cypriots before 1974. It was also known as "Tatlısu" before 1974-References:...
, a village - Mari, PunjabMari, PunjabMari is a town and union council of Mianwali District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 32°57'32N 71°35'7E and has an altitude of 234m .-History:...
, a town and a union council in Pakistan
Religion
- Mari (goddess)Mari (goddess)Mari, Mari Urraca, Anbotoko Mari and the possibly distinct Murumendiko Dama was a goddess — a lamia — of the Basques. She was married to the god Sugaar...
of Basques - Māri, India goddess a.k.a. MariammanMariammanMāri ,Tulu, also known as Mariamman , both meaning "Mother Mari", spelt also Maariamma , or simply Amman or Aatha is the South Indian Hindu goddess of disease and rain. She is the main South Indian mother goddess, predominant in the rural areas of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and...
People
- Saint MariSaint MariSaint Mari was converted by Saint Addai. He is said to have had Mar Aggai as his spiritual director. He is also believed to have done missionary work around Nineveh, Nisibis, and along the Euphrates, and is said to have been one of the great apostles to Syria and Persia. He and Addai are credited...
(fl. c. 100?), Mesopotamian religious leader - José MariJosé MariJosé María Romero Poyón , aka José Mari, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Xerez CD as a forward or winger.-Club career:...
(born 1978), Spanish football player - Mari (1903-1987), Japanese novelist a.k.a. Mori MariMori Mariwas a Japanese author and daughter of famed novelist Mori Ōgai. Born in Hongō, Tokyo, she began a movement of writing about male homosexual passion in 1961 with A Lovers' Forest, , and later I Don't Go on Sundays and The Bed of Dead Leaves...
- Mari PossaMari PossaMari Possa is a pornographic actress and reality TV personality.Her family moved from El Salvador to the United States when she was nine...
(born 1980), Salvadoran actress - Mari AlkatiriMari AlkatiriMari Bim Amude Alkatiri was the first Prime Minister of an internationally-recognized East Timor. He served from May 2002 until he resigned on 26 June 2006 following weeks of political unrest in the country...
(born 1949), Prime Minister of East Timor from 2002 to 2006 - Marianne SteinbrecherMarianne SteinbrecherMarianne Steinbrecher, known as Mari , is a female volleyball player from Brazil, who plays as a wing spiker...
, known as Mari (born 1983), brazilian volleyball player
Other uses
- Mari Iyagi, fictional character in My Beautiful Girl, MariMy Beautiful Girl, MariMy Beautiful Girl, Mari is a critically successful South Korean animated film. It follows the story of a young boy during summer vacation and ascends into flights of surrealistic fantasy, which may or may not be dream sequences.-Plot:Kim Nam-woo struggles through life as people around him...